Ode to the Northamptonshire Serb

Northamptonshire Serb

At Kizzer Charles knelt and prayed
Up Grand Union barges pronounce
Their failure
To gain slipstream to ruddy ducks
Lawrence spoke of inland summers

With bracken, dandelion and dormouse
Translucent fields of barley and hemp
Their destiny
Northants partisan, Northants Serb
Lost collie in them woods absorb

Aged countenance
Mit limitless erudition
Their countrymen
Unsurpassed knowledge of field and animal
Gentle bearing, great is thy promise

Of emotive times forthcoming
Keep Brackmills from thine door
Their opportunity
Grey bats shift and undulate
Surpass essence of Canons Ashby

My Lords constitute
The return times of Fotheringhay
Their secret
Proud stone made Oundle
Defoe stands prominent

Unitarian alternatives
Multiply all possibilities
Their godhead
Join catholic at angles
And make the tweed revolution